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Quotation from The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?”
The Yellow Wallpaper, The Yellow Wallpaper
Early in her journal, the narrator explains why she cannot challenge her husband's diagnosis.
Citation: "If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?" — Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Yellow Wallpaper. (id the-yellow-wallpaper-q1)
Portrait: Charlotte Perkins Gilman c. 1900, Charles Fletcher Lummis (attributed), Public domain.
